{"id":161625,"date":"2022-09-16T11:45:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=161625"},"modified":"2022-09-20T14:45:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T18:45:48","slug":"garner-halpern-hollaman-recommend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/16\/garner-halpern-hollaman-recommend\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Garner, Daniel Halpern, and Keith Hollaman Recommend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_161629\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sidewalk.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161629\" class=\"wp-image-161629 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sidewalk.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sidewalk.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sidewalk-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sidewalk-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-161629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marilyn Monroe\u2019s hand and footprints outside the Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Photo by Sailko, via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Grauman%27s_Chinese_Theatre,_marilyn_monroe.JPG\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. Licensed under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>,<\/p><\/div>\n<p><i>This week, we bring you recommendations from three of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/back-issues\/241\">issue no. 241<\/a>\u00a0contributors.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twenty-two years late I picked up <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blonde<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Joyce Carol Oates\u2019s enormous novel about Marilyn Monroe. At first it jolted me with its jangling, sick vulgarity. My pulse rate shot up. I was trembling. I wanted to throw it across the room. But I also had to acknowledge immediately that it was brilliant. Three days later I dragged myself out the other end, shaken by a sort of angst and awestruck by Oates\u2019s manic power, her huge imagination, her ability to command great cataracts of material\u2014to convey a soul mortally wounded in childhood, laboring in its squalor to recreate itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Helen Garner, interviewed in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/7929\/the-art-of-fiction-no-255-helen-garner\">The Art of Fiction No. 255<\/a><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I first read Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in my family\u2019s summer cottage on Doolittle Lake in Norfolk, Connecticut: an A-frame constructed in the thirties as an afternoon teahouse, with beautiful interior wooden beams and an immense rock slab capping th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e chimney. An occasional mouse, of course, would seek shelter in the loft spaces, but that August I started to hear a constant grinding noise at night that was not very mouselike. I tried to determine the source of this pesky sound, with no luck. Then one day, as I was completely locked into <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the last few pages of Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez&#8217;s book\u2014when \u201call the ants in the world&#8221; are &#8220;dragging toward their holes\u201d the \u201cdry and bloated bag of skin\u201d of a dead baby with the tail of a pig\u2014the heavens broke open inside our cabin. A panel of insulation had collapsed from the weight of sawdust created by a colony of carpenter ants gnawing into the rafters. I jumped up from my chair in shock and terror, madly brushing them off, gasping from the physical and emotional reality of the end of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014this was magical realism at its best.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2014Keith Hollaman, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7925\/dark-suit-and-bow-tie-keith-hollaman\">Dark Suit and Bow Tie<\/a>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three-part insomnia: I awake at 4 <small>A.M.<\/small> with a divided mind anchored to the word <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">snake<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. How it is the perfect representation for the reptile it embodies\u2014starting with the apprising sibilant, then quickly moving off the page by way of a speedy quartet of letters. A lightning-strike piece of diction. Like calling out <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fire<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a crowded space. But while <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">snake<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an auditory slither, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fire<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a fist. That is the first of my early morning\u2019s non sequiturs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then I think about my current reread of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Age of Innocence<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a nearly perfect novel (Wharton is a kinder, American Flaubert), and of the canniness of Wharton\u2019s depiction of May, who is the true <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">archer, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the personage of the bull&#8217;s-eye and the off-stage orchestrator of her novel. I find it challenging to understand why Newland Archer doesn\u2019t climb the five flights of stairs to Ellen&#8217;s apartment, where he would have found the woman of his true passion\u2014and handily displaced the Frenchman. It\u2019s worth reading the last chapter again for the subtleties planted there: \u201cPerhaps she too had kept her memory of him as something apart; but if she had, it must have been like a relic in a small dim chapel, where there was not time to pray every day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And before rising for the day, as the sun rises, I let the memory of Wu Tianming\u2019s 1996 movie <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The King of Masks<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> come back into focus. I see the many faces of a man who, at the end of his life, wants a grandson to continue the art of mask opera and ends up with something equally beautiful that he could not have imagined, in whatever guise. I might have been dreaming of my daughter earlier. I might have allowed the avatars of the imagination and the past to form a portal, a foothold, a path forward into the new day \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Daniel Halpern, author of \u201c<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7920\/mating-tango-daniel-halpern\"><b>Mating Tango<\/b><\/a><b>\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI might have allowed the avatars of the imagination and the past to form a 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